Cut the whites to a stiff froth, mix the sugar and starch, and stir in gradually; continue to stir ten minutes after it is mixed, add two teaspoonfuls of lemon juice, and flavor it with rose water. Put it on with a knife when the cake has stood out of the oven twenty minutes, and then set it in a cool place to harden. Allow the whites of three eggs for two cakes of common size.
Good Child’s Cake.
Three cups raised dough.
One cup of molasses.
The juice and grated rind of a lemon, or one nutmeg.
Half a cup of melted butter, put with the molasses.
Two well-beaten eggs.
A teaspoonful of saleratus in two spoonfuls of hot water.
Work all together, put into buttered pans, and set into the oven immediately.
Put in the lemon juice just before you put it in the pans.